Coat-holder.



No. 676,650. Patented lune l8, 190i. M. MENDELS.

COAT HOLDER.

(Application filed Apr. 27, 1901.)

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MENDEL MENDELS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COAT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 676,650, dated June 18, 1901.

Application filed April 27, 1901.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MENDEL MENDELS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coat- Holders, of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention is an improved holder adapted to be permanently attached to a coat or similar garment in order to suspend the same from a hook or the like; and the object of the invention is to provide an improved holder of this character which will be durable, cheap to manufacture, and which will take up comparatively little space on the inner side of the garment, so that it will not bulge the latter out at the neck and be uncomfortable to the wearer.

The invention consists in certain constructions and arrangements of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view illustrating the upper i11- ner portion of a coat with myimproved holder attached thereto and illustrating the parts of said device in their drawn-in or inoperative position. Fig. 2 is a face view of the holder, illustrating another relative position the parts may take when the holder is not in use. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the parts in their extended or operative position. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, illustrating the end of a suspension-hook over which the slide-plate of the holder is inserted.

The garment-holder comprises two thin fiat metal plates at b of equal size and shape. The plate a is the base-plate and is provided near each side edge with a pair of perforations ofor the passage of the threads by which the said plate may be rigidly and permanently attached to the garment, and the said plate is also provided with two vertical grooves cl, as shown in Fig. 3, intended to receive the thread as it passes from one perforation to the other of the same pair. The base plate a is further provided at its middle with a vertical or longitudinally-extending slot e, and the other plate b is provided near one edge with a stud j, which is confined to work in said slot and by which the said plate I) is held to slide and turn on the surface of the base- Serial No. 57,709. (No model.)

plate, and an aperture g is formed in the said slide-plate 6, near the other edge of the same,- by which said plate may be inserted over a suspensionhook h, as indicated in Fig. 4.

In practice the base-plate a is sewed or otherwise permanently attached to the lining or inner side of a coat 1' or similar garment, so that its upper edge will lie just below the lower inner edge of the coat-collarj. When the holder is not in use, the slide-plate b is moved down until its stud f abuts against the lower end of the slot 6, and when the parts are in this position the upper edges of both plates will be flush with each other, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the two plates will take up very little room lengthwise, or, if desired, the slide-plate may be slid around on the surface of the base-plate and hang pendent from its stud f, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the two plates will then lie close against the coat and not bulge the latter so much as the combined thickness of the two plates might tend to do; but in either case, as the two plates are made of very thin metal and have flat surfaces sliding one on the other and as the stud f is comparatively small and does not project much at either end, the coat-holder hereinbefore described will take up very little space, will not bulge the coat out from the wearers neck, and will be in no wise uncomfortable to the wearer.

While the stud f does not project much beyond the surfaces of the plates at either end, yet there is sufficient projecting of the stud at one end to form a small knob f, by which the plate may be slid up and down.

It is to be noted that as the two plates are of equal size the threads passing through the apertures c and grooves d will'be entirely hidden by the slide-plate b when the latter is drawn down, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby adding to the neat appearance of the holder. Furthermore, it is evident that I have provided a much more durable device than the cloth-holder strap ordinarily used and which frays out and breaks, and that it is not so liable to come in contact with and soil the wearers linen collar as the chains sometimes used as coat-holders.

Having thus described my invention, what I 1. As a new article of manufacture, a coatholder comprising two thin, flat plates, one of which is a base-plate adapted to be rigidly attached to a coat and is provided with a longitudinal or verticallyextending slot 5 and the other plate provided With an aperture to take over a suspension-hook, and also providedwith a stud Working in the slot of the base-plate, whereby said second-named plate is held to turn and slide on the surface of said base-plate as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a coatholder, comprising two thin, fiat plates of equal size and shape, one of said plates pro= vided with a slot, e, thread-apertures, c, and thread-grooves, d, and the other plate pro- Vided with a stud, f, working in said slot, 2, whereby said last named plate may slide and turn on the surface of the first-named plate, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses 4 MENDEL MENDELS.

Witnesses-2 F. S. STITT,

CHARLES L. VIETSOH; 

